Disability rights activists Alice Wong and Keah Brown urge you to celebrate women activists while they’re living
Alaina Leary Updated Mar 29, 2019 @ 12:22 pm
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When Carrie Ann Lucas, a lawyer and disability rights activist, died at the age of 47 last month, the disability community was in mourning. Many of the mourners were her friends and fellow activists—others were people who had learned about Lucas for the first time during the news coverage of her death. This underscores why it’s so important to celebrate and honor living activists during Women’s History Month and beyond.
“I’ve been thinking a lot about the recent death of Carrie Ann Lucas, and [I’m] frustrated by the fact that most people only know her from media coverage about her death,” says Alice Wong, a media maker, disability activist, and research consultant. Wong founded the Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to disability media and culture. “I want us to express our love for one another and our communities openly.”
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